Istanbul (Turkey)
Lives & works in Basel (Switzerland)
Lives & works in Basel (Switzerland)
'In 2018, the artist was awarded the art prize of the Société des Arts de Genève, and CHF 50,000 in prize money. She studied architecture at the HTL Muttenz/Basel and fine arts at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich.' Excerpt Langmatt website
"Renée Levi is known for working in public space, but perhaps it would be more accurate to say that she works on public space, on its re-elaboration, whereas it is on the point of becoming undone from palpable space. Far from rejecting this, Levi takes it as her starting point, such that her pieces, although physically inscribed in public places (schools, working-class housing complexes, banks, hospitals, cantonal assemblies and so on), go beyond the framework of the in situ work of art.” Excerpt CCNOA (Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art) website
Artist book: Kill me afterwards, 2003.
Renée Levi |
"Renée Levi is known for working in public space, but perhaps it would be more accurate to say that she works on public space, on its re-elaboration, whereas it is on the point of becoming undone from palpable space. Far from rejecting this, Levi takes it as her starting point, such that her pieces, although physically inscribed in public places (schools, working-class housing complexes, banks, hospitals, cantonal assemblies and so on), go beyond the framework of the in situ work of art.” Excerpt CCNOA (Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art) website
Renée Levi |
Artist book: Kill me afterwards, 2003.